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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“This kind of parenting was typical in much of Asia—and among Asian immigrant parents living in the United States. Contrary to the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
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I read 'Twilight' when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn't expect to, because I generally don't like fantasy like… — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
“When Baby Boomers grow up and write books to explain why one or another individual is successful, they point to the power… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out… — Ellyse Perry Copy Share Image
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Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have wonders. — Alex RJ Saranpa Copy Share Image
Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script. — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
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